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Registration criteria for Consultancies

Organisations and individuals who offer consultancy services in ergonomics are eligible for registration with the IEHF, provided that they meet the criteria given below.

Consultancy service

  1. Ergonomics expertise must be available on a consultancy basis to any potential client.
  2. Where ergonomics groups exist within larger organisations, they must provide ergonomics consultancy services independent of the parent organisation.
  3. An individual (i.e. sole trader or freelance) must be available for consultancy at least on a part-time basis.
  4. An individual would not normally qualify for registration if fully employed by another organisation.

Links with the IEHF

An ergonomics consultancy must have at least one Registered Member of the IEHF on its permanent staff.

  1. A consultancy must nominate a Registered Member on the staff as the main contact, who must assume responsibility for the consultancy's application for registration.
  2. In any consultancy, the ratio of Registered Members to other staff will be reviewed during an application assessment.
  3. An individual (i.e. sole trader or freelance) who offers full-time or part-time consultancy services must also be a Registered Member and must also be the main contact.

Professional Quality

  1. All Registered Members of the IEHF will have qualifications which have met a suitably appropriate and high standard as laid down by the Institute. Further details of membership requirements are available from the Institute's office.
  2. The technical quality of an ergonomics consultancy service is therefore assumed to be satisfactory if all the work is performed by a Registered Member of the Institute, or the work is supervised and signed off by a Registered Member.
  3. Specific evidence of successfully completed ergonomics projects carried out in the three years prior to the application must be provided.

Commercial Quality

  1. The IEHF seeks to ensure that Registered Consultancies are of sound and stable commercial standing. It seeks also to ensure that the organisation or individual has demonstrated the ability to plan and conduct projects within commercial time and budget constraints.
  2. Applicants for admission to this Register should note that a newly formed consultancy that has met the requirements for registration outlined above, but has no trading history, may be designated a 'New Consultancy' in their entry for the first year of registration.

Renewal

Each year, the IEHF requires those on the Register to re-affirm their eligibility for registration and to confirm that the details of their entry are wholly accurate and complete.